Update July 20, 2017: The broad Reimagining the Future presentation has been updated and available for download via this Link.

For those that have taken the thought leadership course focused on our emerging future, thank you. For those that may have interest, the course will run for the next 10 months. In this post, I will summarize the key messages from the course.

Yogi Berra is credited for once saying that the future ain’t what it used to be. What a perfect way to describe what is coming: a complete change in the way we think about the future. Our journey to the future begins with a look back. A convergence of multiple forces during a special century following the U.S. Civil War established the standard of living in developed economies. Some believe that we will never see a convergence of forces as dramatic and impactful as that which occurred during this period. I pulled this wheel together to capture that convergence across the various areas of our well-being, leveraging the work of economist Robert J. Gordon. I captured his thinking in a recent post titled Revolution and the Innovation Wheel.